Federal Communications Releases Data on Local telephone Competition
"Summary Statistics
· End-user customers obtained local telephone service by utilizing approximately 129.7 million incumbent LEC switched access lines, 28.7 million CLEC switched access lines, and 249.2 million mobile telephony service subscriptions at the end of December 2007.
· Of the 28.7 million CLEC end-user switched access lines, 8.4 million lines were provided over coaxial cable connections. The 8.4 million lines represent about 72% of the 11.7 million end-user switched access lines that CLECs reported providing over their own local loop facilities.
· Mobile telephony service providers reported 249.2 million subscribers at the end of
December 2007, which is 19.6 million, or 9%, more than a year earlier. About 7% of these subscribers were billed by mobile telephony service resellers.
· There was at least one CLEC serving customers in 81% of the nation’s Zip Codes at the end of December 2007. About 97% of United States households resided in those Zip
Codes. Moreover, multiple carriers reported providing local telephone service in the major population centers of the country.
· The 28.7 million lines reported by CLECs is about 18% of the 158.4 million total end-user switched access lines reported for the end of December 2007.
· CLECs reported 12.1 million (or 13%) of the 93.9 million lines that served residential end users and 16.7 million (or 26%) of the 64.6 million lines that served business, institutional, and government customers."